Instagram accepts Snapchat with the new “Instagram Map”
Instagram is expanding Instagram maps. This is a new feature that allows users to share their latest active locations with others and discover location-based content. Meta-owned social networks have also begun reposting, making the “Friends” tab on the reel globally available. With the new map feature, Instagram is copying another popular feature from Snapchat after […]
Cohere’s new AI agent platform, North, promises to keep your enterprise data safe
AI Agent Tools promise to suck up some of the dragery from their daily workflows, but most organizations are still hesitant to adopt them and have immediate concerns: data security. Large companies with trade secrets, highly regulated industry businesses, and government agencies have thought more than once about drawing AI tools out of concern. Canadian […]
Two people arrested for smuggling AI chips into China – Nvidia says no to kill Switch
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said Tuesday that two Chinese citizens were arrested for being involved in illegally shipping tens of millions of dollars of high-performance AI chips to China. The DOJ said Chuan Geng and Shiwei Yang were arrested in California on August 2 and accused of violating the Export Control Reform Act. […]
Photo sharing app Rocket supplies banks to new celebrities focused features to drive its growth
Rocket is a photo sharing app that allows users to share images with friends that appear as widgets on their home screens, staying on the radar and seeking the help of celebrities. When it was launched in 2022, Locket appeared as a Bereal competitor, offering a more authentic way with others. This app places the […]
Microsoft brings the smallest open model of OpenAI to Windows users
Microsoft is making OpenAI’s new free GPT model, GPT-OSS-20B, available to Windows 11 users via Windows AI Foundry. It is Tech Giant’s platform that lets users tap on AI features, APIs and popular open source models on their computers. In a blog post, the company stated that the GPT‑ OSS-20B is “tool-savvy and lightweight,” and […]
Google says hackers stolen customer data by violating Salesforce database
Google has confirmed that some customers’ information has been stolen in recent database violations. In a blog post late Tuesday, Google’s Threat Intelligence Group said one of the Salesforce database systems used to store small business contact information and related notes was violated by a hacking group known as Shiny Hunters, officially designated as UNC6040. […]
Qwant and Ecosia’s debut Staan, European search index aimed at taking on Big Tech
European search engines Qwant and Ecosia said on Wednesday that they have begun offering search queries through Staan, an index they developed together. Last year, the search engine QWANT, which focuses on French privacy, attacked a joint venture with German non-profit search engine Ecosia to develop a European search index. The JV, known as the […]
For the first time, OpenAI models are available on AWS
Sam Altman’s brooch to competitors is very hot, and includes a new partnership with Amazon Web Services. Amazon announced on Tuesday that new models will be available on AWS as Openai unveiled two Open-Weight Reasoning models with equivalent features as the O-series. The company confirmed with TechCrunch that this is the first time the Openai […]
Openai launches two “open” AI inference models
Openai announced on Tuesday the launch of two Open-Weight AI inference models with similar features to the O-series. Both are free to download from the embracing face of the online developer platform, the company says, describing the model as “state-of-the-art” when measured by several benchmarks to compare open models. The model comes in two sizes. […]
Some defend their confusion after CloudFlare “being embarrassed to be named”
When CloudFlare secretly slashed its website on Monday, accusing AI search engines of bewilderment, ignoring certain ways of blocking it, this was not a clear case of AI Web Crawler becoming wild. Many people came to defend their confusion. They argued that the confusion of visiting the site ignoring the wishes of the website owner […]